Hosting your own site? Couple questions...

[Chipster]

Would a Celeron 333 w/384mb sdram, 6gb 5400rpm harddrive and a DSL connection cut it for you to host you own website for lets say just a small friends and family site. Also,if it is enough power,would your site load faster than just having it hosted by one of those low cost hosting companies that you share a server with probably a couple hundred people?

I don't know if its even worth all the headaches doing it yourself cause I'm sure theres alot involved but it would make for a good learning experience.

 

[tweakmm]

how many hits are you expecting a day?
how fast is your DSL connection?
what will you be serving?

 

[Mucman]

I host on a cable connection

www.mucmail.com
andromeda.muc-central.com

on a Cyrix 366 with 256M 10G 5400 HD

I run FreeBSD which makes em fairly fast. I used to run the sites with 64M of RAM, and bumping it up to 256M made a massive difference. I think you will be ok with that hardware.

 

[Chipster]

how many hits are you expecting a day?
how fast is your DSL connection?
what will you be serving?

Very small amount of hits im sure and it will be just your basic family stuff with pictures and a message board and etc. My connection is 1.5 doown and 384 up but theres also a catch there,I have a dynamic ip but I found some sites that can help you out with that or I could just get a static ip for 10 bucks a month more.

 

[vegetation]

Pay the $3/month and get a host.

Originally posted by: Chipster

how many hits are you expecting a day?
how fast is your DSL connection?
what will you be serving?

Very small amount of hits im sure and it will be just your basic family stuff with pictures and a message board and etc. My connection is 1.5 doown and 384 up but theres also a catch there,I have a dynamic ip but I found some sites that can help you out with that or I could just get a static ip for 10 bucks a month more.

 

[geoff2k]

I would try self-hosting first... we ran a website on our very first crappy DSL connection, and it was more than enough for the 10-12 hits per day it got.

Check out dyndns.com for variable-IP DNS.

 

[MacBaine]

Originally posted by: Chipster

how many hits are you expecting a day?
how fast is your DSL connection?
what will you be serving?

Very small amount of hits im sure and it will be just your basic family stuff with pictures and a message board and etc. My connection is 1.5 doown and 384 up but theres also a catch there,I have a dynamic ip but I found some sites that can help you out with that or I could just get a static ip for 10 bucks a month more.

I have the same type of connection as you, and what I did, was register a domain name, and have it redirect to www.dyndns.org, which is a free service for people with a dynamic IP. They assign a static address to you, and you d/l a little program that automatically updates their server when your IP changes. That way, when somebody types in your address, it is redirected to the redirector, which knows your IP addy whatever it is and sends them there.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Chipster
Would a Celeron 333 w/384mb sdram, 6gb 5400rpm harddrive and a DSL connection cut it for you to host you own website for lets say just a small friends and family site.
I don't know if its even worth all the headaches doing it yourself cause I'm sure theres alot involved but it would make for a good learning experience.

yes, i have a similar setup
celeron 333 128MB ram, 2 gb and 3 gb scsi hard drives, two network cards, cable modem

it is kinda fun to do it yourself, i run ClarkConnect on it, i don't have a forum on it yet, i haven't had time yet , but you can see the photo gallery and mp3 server (andromeda ) running on it here

 

[rh71]

Definitely run it yourself if it's just for family and friends. DSL should be decent enough, and they won't all be connecting at the same time.

 

[Iron Woode]

I use an old p233 with 128mg of ram running Mandrake 8.2 and apache for my webserver. Using a cable modem, this server can handle lots of traffic easily.

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: Chipster

how many hits are you expecting a day?
how fast is your DSL connection?
what will you be serving?

Very small amount of hits im sure and it will be just your basic family stuff with pictures and a message board and etc. My connection is 1.5 doown and 384 up but theres also a catch there,I have a dynamic ip but I found some sites that can help you out with that or I could just get a static ip for 10 bucks a month more.

Checkout http://dyndns.org or http://hn.org

These allows host with dynamic IP to use a static hostname.

Jugs

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Chipster
Would a Celeron 333 w/384mb sdram, 6gb 5400rpm harddrive and a DSL connection cut it for you to host you own website for lets say just a small friends and family site.
I don't know if its even worth all the headaches doing it yourself cause I'm sure theres alot involved but it would make for a good learning experience.

yes, i have a similar setup
celeron 333 128MB ram, 2 gb and 3 gb scsi hard drives, two network cards, cable modem

it is kinda fun to do it yourself, i run ClarkConnect on it, i don't have a forum on it yet, i haven't had time yet , but you can see the photo gallery and mp3 server (andromeda ) running on it here

I run it too I have a 667 Celeron w/ 256 MB and a 80GB:Q HD.

I just host pics for the family and suff for here.


Here hosted on 640/128 K so it is slow